Over the past few weeks, names of committed athletes for the 2018 Energy for Swim meet in December have been trickling out, one-by-one. So far we’ve reported confirmations from Sarah Sjostrom, Chad le Clos, Katinka Hosszu, Tom Shields, Ben Proud, Cameron van der Burgh, Kristian Gkolomeev, Mehdy Metella, Federica Pellegrini, and Lazslo Cseh.
Today, SwimSwam received an extensive list of confirmed athletes from the Energy Standard Group, revealing a new list full of Olympic champions. Besides those mentioned above, the also committed to the meet are at least 11 other : Kyle Chalmers, Emily Seebohm, Adam Peaty, Ryan Murphy, Femke Heemskerk, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Matt Grevers, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Leah Smith, Conor Dwyer and Simone Manuel.
View the full list below of confirmed athletes so far:
SIGNED CONTRACTS
| ATHLETE | COUNTRY | |
| 1 | Michael Andrew | USA |
| 2 | Veronika Andrusenko | RUS |
| 3 | Cameron Van Der Burgh | RSA |
| 4 | Laszlo Cseh | HUN |
| 5 | Sergey Fesikov | RUS |
| 6 | Anastasia Fesikova | RUS |
| 7 | Kristian Gkolomeev | GRE |
| 8 | Katinka Hosszu | HUN |
| 9 | Chad Le Clos | RSA |
| 10 | Mehdy Metella | FRA |
| 11 | Mikhail Romanchuk | UKR |
| 12 | Sergii Shevtsov | UKR |
| 13 | David Verraszto | HUN |
EMAIL CONFIRMATIONS
| ATHLETE | COUNTRY | Date of positive email response |
| Emily Seebohm | AUS | 23-Oct |
| Madison Wilson | AUS | 20-Oct |
| Kyle Chalmers | AUS | 24-Oct |
| Pieter Timmers | BEL | 29-Oct |
| Marwan El-Kamash | EGY | 29-Oct |
| Mehdy Metella | FRA | 21-Oct |
| Adam Peaty | GBR | 23-Oct |
| Duncan Scott | GBR | 23-Oct |
| Siobhan O’Connor | GBR | 23-Oct |
| Ben Proud | GBR | 19-Oct |
| Georgia Davies | GBR | 19-Oct |
| James Guy | GBR | 19-Oct |
| Max Litchfield | GBR | 22-Oct |
| Gkolomeev Kristian | GRE | 23-Oct |
| Czeh Lazslo | HUN | 23-Oct |
| Hosszu Katinka | HUN | 22-Oct |
| Verrazsto David | HUN | 25-Oct |
| Arianna Castiglioni | ITA | 25-Oct |
| Federica Pellegrini | ITA | 24-Oct |
| Ilaria Cusinato | ITA | 23-Oct |
| Sabbioni Simone | ITA | 25-Oct |
| Danas Rapsys | LTU | 25-Oct |
| Femke Heermskerk | NED | 23-Oct |
| Ranomi Kromowidjojo | NED | 23-Oct |
| Cameron van der Burgh | RSA | 23-Oct |
| Chad Le Clos | RSA | 19-Oct |
| Andrusenko Veronika | RUS | 23-Oct |
| Minakov Andrei | RUS | 31-Oct |
| Fesikov Sergey | RUS | 26-Oct |
| Fesikova Anastasia | RUS | 25-Oct |
| Kliment Kolesnikov | RUS | 26-Oct |
| Krasnykh Aleksandr | RUS | 23-Oct |
| Prigoda Kirill | RUS | 26-Oct |
| Rylov Evgeniy | RUS | 25-Oct |
| Ugolkova Maria | RUS | 22-Oct |
| Sarah Sjostrom | SWE | 19-Oct |
| Michelle Coleman | SWE | 23-Oct |
| Dylan Carter | TTO | 29-Oct |
| Sergii Shevtsov | UKR | 19-Oct |
| Mikhail Romanchuk | UKR | 19-Oct |
| Blake Pieroni | USA | 23-Oct |
| Gunnar Bentz | USA | 30-Oct |
| Josh Prenot | USA | 19-Oct |
| Katie Meili | USA | 29-Oct |
| Kendyl Stewart | USA | 26-Oct |
| Kevin Cordes | USA | 26-Oct |
| Leah Smith | USA | 26-Oct |
| Matt Grevers | USA | 27-Oct |
| Melanie Margalis | USA | 26-Oct |
| Michael Andrew | USA | 19-Oct |
| Nic Fink | USA | 22-Oct |
| Olivia Smoliga | USA | 24-Oct |
| Ryan Murphy | USA | 22-Oct |
| Simone Manuel | USA | 23-Oct |
| Tom Shields | USA | 24-Oct |
| Michael Chadwick | USA | 26-Oct |
| Conor Dwyer | USA | 20-Oct |
| Molly Hannis | USA | 31-Oct |
OTHER ITALIAN SWIMMERS COMPETING
| Italian Swimmers |
| Luca Dotto |
| Alessandro Miressi |
| Simona Quadarella |
| Fabio Scozzoli |
| Gregorio Paltrinieri |
| Piero Codia |
| Gabriele Detti |
| Ilaria Bianchi |
| Martina Carraro |
| Margherita Panziera |
See the full release courtesy of the Italian Swimming Federation:
The Italian Swimming Federation, in collaboration with the City of Torino, will organize ENERGY FOR SWIM 2018, that will be held in 20-21 December 2018 on Aquatic Stadium.
The contest will be attended by the greatest champions of swimming for two unforgettable days of entertainment and consists of a competition in a 25-metre pool according to all the rules of LEN and FINA.
The event includes all the individual events of the World Championship (except 800 and 1500) and the relays 4×100 freestyle, 4×100 medley, 4×100 mixed freestyle and 50 freestyle skins.
ENERGY FOR SWIM 2018 is an individual competition by invitation of national and foreign athletes that will be split in four groups and not representing the national teams of the country of their origin.
The format provides a points ranking and prize money for the athletes in each events.
The contest aims to enhance the image of the performance of participating athletes to be a real showcase after the World Championship in short course that will end in Hangzhou (CHN) a few days earlier.
The event will be sponsored by the Energy Standard Group.
SwimSwam is an Energy Standard Group partner.
Do they invite any Asian swimmers? Or they simply show no interest?
Amazing participation in this meet! Spain could take the example of Italy and start investing more in Swimming. A meet like the Energy for Swim with all these stars would be perfect to boost the visibility and interest for Swimming.
So Simone Manuel doesn’t swim at SCM worlds in December but rather at that meet with much money. She could do both. Disappointing.
People should be careful. Look at what happened to the Davis Cup in tennis. Now most of the best players prefer to play exhibition tournaments with huge money and/or the useless Laver Cup. Hopefully that kind of swim meets doesn’t kill the world championships in the future.
I don’t know the particulars of Manuel’s academic situation, but I do know that she is still a Stanford student with just a few units yet to be completed for graduation, and that Stanford’s Autumn Quarter finals week this year is scheduled for December 10-14, 2018.
Why would you be sad that it’s killing world championships? There’s a reason why the athletes are choosing one over the other
Huge lineup. Is there a lot of $$$ available?
Apparently. Half a million US dollar$$$ !
Heard this meet was not sanctioned by FINA?
Huge meet and great success for Italian Federation and Len president Barelli who, everyone can remind, criticized a lot Fina’s policy.
Now this huge meet in Italy, just a few days after Fina SCM Worlds, with some big names here and not at Worlds.
Useless to add other arguments.
Fede should be under the Italians 🙂
too bad, no Canadians